Hacker News: braum

New comment by braum in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

braum — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:40:08 +0000

How does Ollama help with Claude Code? Claude code runs in terminal but AFAIK connects back to anthropic directly and cannot run locally. I hope I'm missing something obvious.

New comment by braum in "Robert Redford has died"

braum — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:35:47 +0000

just a few days ago I had an idea for a shirt and sent it to a designer on fiverr. I was very pleased with what I got back. "Secrets are Power" was my nod to one of my favorite movies Sneakers! Rest in Piece Mr. Redford.

http://bit.ly/3Ip3tr3 link to the shirt if you want to look at it. there is a message encoding in the background.

New comment by braum in "Fingerjigger"

braum — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:32:31 +0000

this is fun but you are killing speed by not showing the next 2-4 words. I'm not even that fast really 85wpm but having to wait for the next word it is leaving a lot of speed on the table for no reason.

New comment by braum in "A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees"

braum — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:29:26 +0000

up for My Cousin Vinny reference!

New comment by braum in "Apple lacks strategic vision"

braum — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 16:33:42 +0000

Tim Cook being replaced is long LONG overdue!

New comment by braum in "Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code"

braum — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:08:37 +0000

yep! I just got it the other day. I upgraded to get the variants but I quickly settled on the Regular which is included with $75 Dev license. It's amazing even using it for non-code like in Obsidian.

New comment by braum in "Ask HN: What's the best way to start with Ruby on rails?"

braum — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:23:53 +0000

If you had to choose one to start would it be Sustainable Rails or Agile Web Development with Rails 8?

New comment by braum in "Ask HN: What's the best way to start with Ruby on rails?"

braum — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:16:47 +0000

I've been trying Rails again thanks to Lex and DHH podcast. The official docs are good but have some obvious errors in the code snippets, that were not obvious to me until I asked AI to explain.

Also I was reading the free chapters of the "Ruby on Rails Tutorial" but it still refers and suggests using AWS Cloud 9 which no longer allows new users, since 2024... I emailed the author but they have not replied. At $39 per MONTH it seems a bit much for such an obvious oversight. Seems borderline gauging to me to pay $39 just for the eBook, it is not for sale otherwise AFAIK. And to have the first chapter about getting set up to reference something that has been outdated since July 25th of 2024 does not leave a good impression for me.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/how-to-migrate-from-aws-...

I'm not a cheap sob, I will pay for content and books. But when the free content is already out of date... I don't hold much hope for the premium content and chapters at $39mo.

New comment by braum in "The 37signals Employee Handbook"

braum — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:05:14 +0000

anyone make a PDF version of this?

New comment by braum in "Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger"

braum — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 17:55:20 +0000

So will Adobe put more resources to help their pre-maturely abandoned XD catchup?

New comment by braum in "Translate a message 10 times into different languages and back"

braum — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:16:26 +0000

"What would you do for a Klondike bar?"

"It is? What would you do for clone drinks?"

New comment by braum in "F1: Mercedes appeals Verstappen's win, contest safety car procedure in last lap"

braum — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 17:40:53 +0000

I think it worked out as it was supposed to. Mercedes could have pitted during SC and got fresh tires, they decided not to, thought they had it wrapped up. F1 is a team sport and Mercedes can't stand they made an error.

FIA made two poor decisions, first allowing Hamilton to keep his advantage after he goes off track. Then they allowed the odd restart with SC. To me it evened out.

Of course, Mercedes will appeal, they can't stand to lose. And if they had won, I would expect RedBull to appeal that stupid call at the beginning of the race. Either one deserves the crown.

Congratulations Max!

New comment by braum in "Backblaze IPO"

braum — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 01:42:17 +0000

yep. that is how it worked for me as well

New comment by braum in "Backblaze IPO"

braum — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 22:31:22 +0000

Well I'm a BackBlaze customer and have been for a year or more. Not sure what else would qualify me to be part of the IPO before it goes public. Also AFAIK there is nothing preventing them from allowing customers to be part of it, but there may be a limiting factor. Some way to narrow the list. I have more than one computer subscribed, that could be part of the filter.

New comment by braum in "Backblaze IPO"

braum — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 22:22:18 +0000

Fidelity is handling the IPO and if you have been a customer of BackBlaze for a while apparently you will get to buy before public, up to 1,000 shares between $15-17 per share. That is my understanding.

New comment by braum in "The FDA wants you to be able to buy a hearing aid without a prescription"

braum — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 18:26:53 +0000

I wear hearing aides every day. SMALLER would be better and mine have BT5 and rechargeable. they are NOT cheap about $6k pair with 3 year complete warranty included. Again having options is the best thing, making them larger for me would mean they are more easily dislodged when I bend over to pick something up or are wearing them when working in shop. Having some that have better weather or fully waterproof would be great. I normal take them off when working outside or in the shop. The sweat makes them mostly useless because of the "noise" the sweat makes against the mics. Then the sweat also makes them slick and they will not stay in place. Having options is ideal and affordable options would be great. I don't know why these things are $6k pair when they share a lot of tech with modern in ear options from bose/apple/ect.

New comment by braum in "Stripe Atlas Front End Carousel Shows Wrong Images"

braum — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:31:46 +0000

Windows 10 x64

Microsoft Edge Version 93.0.961.52 (Official build) (64-bit)

It works fine in firefox, it's something with that carousel.

Stripe Atlas Front End Carousel Shows Wrong Images

braum — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:52:19 +0000

Article URL: https://imgur.com/a/lw0Yhic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28709778

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by braum in "MIT students got $100 of free bitcoin in 2014 – some got rich, some got sushi"

braum — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 14:51:01 +0000

is crypto currency gold (asset building) or is it cash (transactional)? some spent $100 on food and some probably didn't know what do to with it and left it alone. if you knew right now that a $1 bill would be effectively worth $100 in 5 years would you use it to buy food? Bitcoin in particular was originally supposed to be a transactional mechanism but along the way it was either too slow or too expensive. Until the price is stable and remains so it will likely remain only something to own and not something to spend.

New comment by braum in "Amiga 2000 EATX PCB"

braum — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 11:21:14 +0000

sincere questions. what is it about the Amiga, in 2021, that still has such interest to warrant a project like this? Does it do something a modern Mac or PC can't? Does it have a unique ability that does something better?